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Deadline end of year
wardenferry419:
I posted them as additional sites with Dresden topics and good layouts.
nervousenergy:
I agree with many in the main exit thread: Forums aren't dinosaurs OR dying in the niches they occupy. If anything, they're growing. No other social media design captures near-time conversation, topic organization, search-ability, anonymity, and global 'one stop shop' for everything that forum is about. Every other option mentioned (Facebook, G+, Reddit, Discord, etc.) fails one or more of those major features.
Getting rid of the official forum concept is a big mistake, and will almost certainly spawn another forum(s) that are 'unofficial' for fans to get those community features. Iago may be done with the forums, but he's likely to find out after they're changed to read-only that the fan base isn't done with the Forum concept. It'll fracture for a while into all these other SM spaces, then imperfectly coalesce back onto another BBS style forum somewhere else. After Iago breaks the tablets, and the JBO fanbase spends a few months wandering in the FaceBook, Reddit (lol), and G+ desert, perhaps the 17th Shard will take them in. They certainly don't seem to be 'dying'.
Mira:
--- Quote from: nervousenergy on October 22, 2017, 02:54:50 PM ---I agree with many in the main exit thread: Forums aren't dinosaurs OR dying in the niches they occupy. If anything, they're growing. No other social media design captures near-time conversation, topic organization, search-ability, anonymity, and global 'one stop shop' for everything that forum is about. Every other option mentioned (Facebook, G+, Reddit, Discord, etc.) fails one or more of those major features.
Getting rid of the official forum concept is a big mistake, and will almost certainly spawn another forum(s) that are 'unofficial' for fans to get those community features. Iago may be done with the forums, but he's likely to find out after they're changed to read-only that the fan base isn't done with the Forum concept. It'll fracture for a while into all these other SM spaces, then imperfectly coalesce back onto another BBS style forum somewhere else. After Iago breaks the tablets, and the JBO fanbase spends a few months wandering in the FaceBook, Reddit (lol), and G+ desert, perhaps the 17th Shard will take them in. They certainly don't seem to be 'dying'.
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I agree for the most part and have checked out Reddit and Facebook and prefer what we have here. What is the reason exactly for having to disband and move?
Arjan:
Maintainance. Iago got fed up with it. From what I understand he had made up his mind and there is nothing we can do about it.
So we got to hear that forums are not hip anymore and that it was time to move on. As any programmer knows, how the software looks like is more important than the functionality. And young kids use Facebook now.
I am on Facebook because some of my friends are and it is the ideal medium for sharing pictures of your cats but for long term discussions it is just to fleeting.
nervousenergy:
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 22, 2017, 03:58:32 PM ---So we got to hear that forums are not hip anymore and that it was time to move on. As any programmer knows, how the software looks like is more important than the functionality. And young kids use Facebook now.
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And that's the part that peeves me off the most about the situation: the impression of dishonesty. I say impression because I don't know Iago's mind and won't accuse him of dishonesty if he truly does feel the BB format is dead and we're all very reluctant users who'd much rather be on Facebook or Reddit, despite the copious evidence to the contrary. If he's tired of it he's tired of it... this happens all the time. Give it over to someone else, and if nobody wants to step up and JB isn't interested in professional management/hosting then let it die of it's own accord, but don't try and tell us something that's simply not true for what's likely the vast majority of us.
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